CVE-2021-20303

Summary

CVECVE-2021-20303
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-03-04 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:29:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw found in function dataWindowForTile() of IlmImf/ImfTiledMisc.cpp. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by OpenEXR could trigger an integer overflow, leading to an out-of-bounds write on the heap. The greatest impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to data integrity as well.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Openexr Openexr All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1939151 – (CVE-2021-20303) CVE-2021-20303 OpenEXR: Heap-buffer-overflow in Imf_2_5::copyIntoFrameBuffer MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3236-1] openexr security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Use Int64 in dataWindowForTile to prevent integer overflow by peterhillman · Pull Request #831 · AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr · GitHub MISC github.com
25505 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178742 Debian Security Update for openexr (DLA 2732-1)
  • 179787 Debian Security Update for openexr (CVE-2021-20303)
  • 181315 Debian Security Update for openexr (DLA 3236-1)
  • 355396 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for OpenEXR : ALAS2-2023-2078
  • 670719 EulerOS Security Update for OpenEXR (EulerOS-SA-2021-2477)
  • 670756 EulerOS Security Update for OpenEXR (EulerOS-SA-2021-2514)
  • 671138 EulerOS Security Update for OpenEXR (EulerOS-SA-2021-2600)
  • 750987 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openexr (SUSE-SU-2021:2793-1)
  • 751018 OpenSUSE Security Update for openexr (openSUSE-SU-2021:2793-1)
  • 751042 OpenSUSE Security Update for openexr (openSUSE-SU-2021:1198-1)
  • 751072 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openexr (SUSE-SU-2021:2913-1)
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